VicTraffic infrastructure scaling

Just as we’ve seen during the bushfires in 2014 and other years, and when incidents occur affecting the Melbourne road network like when a truck nearly fell off the Bolte Bridge in 2013, VicTraffic is experiencing extremely high spikes in visitor traffic volumes due to widespread flooding across much of Victoria.

But also at this time, due to the flooding having such a far-reaching impact across almost the whole state of Victoria, VicTraffic is currently displaying more incidents (road closures, traffic alerts, detours, roads re-opened, road works, tow allocations) than ever before, to the best of our collective knowledge.

Thankfully, the clever AWS infrastructure behind VicTraffic is scaling as it is intended to, allowing the site to stay up and available to all users in times of very heavy load such as this.